Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 8·March–May 1939

J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VII Mar.–May 1939John Franklin Daniel

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 9 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 8 (J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VII Mar.–May 1939), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page (20)Scan 9 of 94

Trench 16 ---- = 1938 limits

Drawing: plan of trenches and structures; labels: 14, 3, 8, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 15, 9, 1, 5, 16, 7a, 7b, d, c, 13, 12, g, 11, 10, g

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TRENCH 12

20.3.39 Start to open an area ca. sq., to the S-W, between the old 2nd W. ext. and Tr. 12 S. The surface is at in the S.W corner, in the S.E., in the N-E. At we find the same whitish layer as elsewhere in Tr. 12, and try to isolate surface intrusions. They are difficult to locate. 21.3.39 Dig below and find slightly redder earth at . Pieces of chavara or bed-rock begin to appear in the S + E.

24.3.39 Start clearing the chavara blocks, and dig below , reaching a redder level with many sherds ? in the central part.

Photos Bam. V. G. 3, 4, 5, 7, 8

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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